The sales prices of new video cards appear to fall again this month in Germany and Austria. Retail data shows that GPUs are sold for an average of one and a half times the target price — they haven’t been this affordable since February.
On 3DCenter.org has been monitoring price trends since the beginning of this year. The same website also beat the bizarre retail spike, with Nvidia’s new video cards being put on web shops for an average three times the suggested retail price . Since mid-May, virtually all video card prices have been in remission. Currently, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti from Nvidia seems to be the most expensive. You can only buy the new budget card from an additional cost of 91 percent. The new RTX 3080 Ti, on the other hand, can be found with a price inflation of ‘only’ 25 percent above the recommended retail price. The same applies to Nvidia’s ultimate top model, the RTX 3090.
Since May, Nvidia has been rolling out a new variant of (existing) video cards. By renewing the GPU as a ‘Lite Hash Rate’ version, it becomes more difficult to get a good crypto return from the cards. Combined with some declines in the valuation of popular crypto currencies, this may have impacted the immense demand for popular video cards.
AMD’s range is also around the same average: sales prices that are approximately one and a half times the recommended retail price. The Radeon RX 6000 series has been less prone to the price hike in recent months — likely due to weaker returns in crypto mining — but that offering, too, suffered from low supply and pumped prices.
Prices in the Benelux often seem slightly higher than in Germany, although the decline seems to have started here too. 3DCenter’s data is based on ten different retailers in Germany and Austria, some of which also serve other European countries. Whether the price remission will completely blow over (or continue to the actual target prices) is still unclear.
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